The Tin Lady [Our nickname for Margaret Thatcher Wannabee, Theresa May] surprised everyone this week calling for a snap election on the 8th of June, weeks after local elections and in the hopes of consolidating the Tories hold on Government and winning a super majority to pass the Brexit agreement without any other party. In other words, she hates the nickname Tin Lady and wants to at least earn Bronze.

In the USA, 45 spent time blowing things up with his military toys. He launched 59 cruise missiles while we were away after alerting Russia and Syria so they could get their aircraft out of the way, missed the runway and in classic 45 style said, “I meant to do that.” Then decided he would drop a $13 million dollar, 21,600 pound piece of ordnance on a series of tunnels built by originally by the CIA killing 36 Al Qaeda militants so they say. In the Vietnam War, the sophisticated method for calculating war dead was “Private how many enemies killed.” Sir, I do not know. “Private what is today’s date.” The 16th sir. “Command, 16 enemy dead. Out”

Denis G. Campbell is founder and editor of UK Progressive magazine and co-host of The Three Muckrakers podcast. He is the author of 7 books and provides Americas, EU and Middle Eastern commentary to the BBC, itv, Al Jazeera English, CNN, CRI, MSNBC and others. He is CEO of Monknash Media and a principal with B2E Consulting in London. You can follow him on Twitter @UKProgressive and on Facebook.

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